Dear Shri Sajan,
I received a mail from Dr.R.Sreedhar regarding his views (see below highlighted
in red ink) on Manipal FM, which is an FM Radio like any campus radio
under license from the Ministry of I&B and is operational since Sept 12,2008
for one hour and is being run by an experienced radio person namely Mr. Shyam
Bhat who is an ex-employee of AIR.
Aside our views on CRs in the Universities/ Institutes, the Manipal FM has the
wherewithal in the form of a full audio studio where even music programmes on
bigger scale could also be recorded with orchestra, not very congested ones
that you see in many FM radios in different university/institute campuses.
After my joining here, I found Mr.Shyam Bhat taking the support of BA J C and
MS final students in preparing a number of programmes. I even had anlaysed the
content of the progammes being broadcast from Sept 12, 2008 and certainly in
one hour duration they are airing 50% programmes relevant to farmers, and Tulu
community people.
I verified the contents of Dr.Sreedhar's mail making fun of Manipal FM
organizing FM radio workshops in the name of community radio workshops and I do
not know where from he got to know that a non-community radio person having
inaugurated such workshop.
In a joint collaboration, the Manipal FM and Mangalore University NSS Unit
organized recently a work shop not for community radio target groups but for
general consumption and it was Dr.Kamath, who is a Padmabhushan awardee, 88
years old respectable former Chairman of Prasar Bharati. If that were to be his
objection, well there is nothing I could say over the matter. But, other than
that, Mr.Shyam Bhat clarified no other community workshops are being organized.
Nor non-community radio people are involved.
I wish Dr.Sreehar take same yardstick to other FM radios claiming themselves to
be community radios including the ones in Delhi/Noida institutes. But
surprisingly he attended the inaugural functions of such institutes in Delhi
where the contents of transmissions which I analysed do not fall into the
definition of consumption for communities specified at all.
As for Manipal Radio FM, the University has larger plans to unfold in the years
to come, as I understand from my Director and definitely it would go on air for
longer hours catering to Tulu and Farming communities in and around.
This is for your infomation and clarification on the capabilities of Manipal FM
radio. Those who have any doubts about the wherewithal of the studios,
equipment and infrastructure, and man power they are welcome to visit Manipal
Institute of Communication on whose campus it is situated. Infrastructure wise,
a few FM radios can compete with Manipal FM radio .
If Radio Sarang can do same thing for three hours, and if it is acceptable to
the echelons sitting in Delhi and judging the matters at their level, then
Manipal FM doing presetly one hour job for entirely administrative decisions of
the University should not be viewed as a serious lacunae. It is the content
which matters and as an academic I am convinced that more than 60% content it
caters in one hour to the Tulu and farming community is community oriented
content.
This is for your information and wider dissemination.
Regards
C.S.H.N.Murthy Ph.D
Professor in Mass Communication,
Manipal Institute of Communication, Press Corner,
Manipal University,Manipal 576 104Karnataka India
--- On Thu, 1/10/09, sreedher ramamurthy <[email protected]> wrote:
From: sreedher ramamurthy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [cr-india] cr-india Digest, Vol 71, Issue 1
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, 1 October, 2009, 10:55 AM
This is with reference to Manipal FM. No one knows when this radio station was
commissioned. a radio station which does not have a wherewithal to run for
longer hours and doing only token one hour of broadcast , is organising
Community radio workshops. Workshop being inaugurated by a non community radio
person . I find no person who has some knowledge of CR radio in India is
involved in the exercise. Karnatak is home to Budhikote, and also the VP of the
AMARC lives in Karnatak.
god save such radio stations. sreedher
Dr. R. Sreedher
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